Grouping: CAP News

Last week, the Canadian Government announced investments in Canadian University research programs totaling $900 million through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). Among the 13 successful postsecondary institutions were the University of Waterloo with the Transformative Quantum Technologies (TQT) program and Queen’s University with the Canadian Particle Astrophysics Research Centre (CPARC). “Today’s investment by… Read more »

The CAP congratulates CAP member Art McDonald from Queen’s University/SNOLAB who will be promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada, and CAPF Board member Peter Calamai, retired science writer most notably with Southam News, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Toronto Star, who will be invested as an Order of Canada member on Friday, May… Read more »

Charles Gale, James McGill Professor in the Department of Physics at McGill University, is one of six outstanding scholars who have just been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship.  Dr. Gale will work on “Nuclear Matter under Extreme conditions:  Elucidating the Properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma”.  Dr. Gale was awarded the CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and… Read more »

The following is a brief analysis of science-related highlights from the proposed 2016 Federal Budget, entitled “Growing the Middle Class”. Throughout the year, CAP will continue to monitor government policy that could affect physics in Canada. This brief is intended to capture those highlights most relevant to members of CAP, and does not include all… Read more »

The CAP is delighted to report that CAP member Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (a CAP Institutional member), and Founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences has been named the 2016 recipient of the prestigious John Torrence Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics from the American Institute of Physics… Read more »

The NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering is awarded annually for both the sustained excellence and overall influence of research work conducted in Canada in the natural sciences or engineering. On 2016 February 16, the NSERC Herzberg Medal was awarded to Dr. Victoria M. Kaspi from the Department of Physics at McGill… Read more »

Today, scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer collaborations announced that they have detected gravitational waves for the first time. Among other implications, it confirms the prediction of such waves by Albert Einstein exactly 100 years ago and caps a multi-decade search for this elusive phenomenon. Dr. Adam Sarty, CAP president,… Read more »

The CAP congratulates the newly-appointed Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan, and Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains.  We look forward to working with them during their mandates.   Other key appointments of note that impact on science/research and post-secondary education include: William Francis Morneau (ON) – Finance Minister Scott Brison (NS) –… Read more »

** The CAP’s Public Release is attached below. ** 2015 October 6 The CAP gives its wholehearted congratulations to SNOLAB/Queen’s University’s Professor Arthur B. McDonald, who shares the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics with Professor Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” McDonald… Read more »

The registration for the 7th Canadian Science Policy Conference, CSPC 2015, is now open. Click here to visit the registration page. REGISTER NOW to September 7th to get up to 30% off with the SUPERSAVER discount! After four years, CSPC is returning to the Nation’s Capital and features an exciting array of programs. CSPC 2015… Read more »